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Erich Heller Quotes

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Erich Heller
World, Mystery, Wonder
Erich Heller (1975). “The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought”, Putnam Aeronautical Books

Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute

Erich Heller
Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.

Erich Heller
Real, Intelligent, Self
Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr

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